The following from Wings Over Scotland reminded me of an article I wrote recently for iScot Magazine. So that’s clear. There is no peaceful democratic avenue by which the people of Scotland could express the wish for a second referendum…

Why do we have democratic elections? We have them because the alternative is armed conflict. Elections are a proxy for tribal warfare where the tribe with the biggest army usually wins. Votes replace soldiers. It isn’t perfect, god knows the…

It should be clear from Nicola Sturgeon’s comments regarding a ‘triple lock’, and from the approach to a new independence referendum set out in the SNP manifesto, that we face two quite distinct battles. Before we can even contemplate fighting…

The SNP will not have won a mandate to hold a second independence referendum even if the party wins more than half the Scottish general election vote, Ruth Davidson has insisted. The Scottish Conservative leader was responding to questions from…

Truly appalling stuff from Kevin McKenna as he once again confuses the cosy consensus of the Unionist media with reality. What is being portrayed as extraordinary and vicious hounding of ‘The Foodbank Nurse’ by ‘cybernats’ was, in fact, no more…

There’s a bit of a problem with Jeremy Corbyn’s claim that “if we all stand together things can and will change” in that we have stood together and things have changed – and around half the people of Scotland are…

It’s happened again. Ruth Davidson has escaped genuine scrutiny when appearing on BBC Scotland. The Scottish Conservative leader appeared on Good Morning Scotland on Friday. Despite nearly twelve minutes within which to quiz the de-facto leader of Scotland’s British Nationalists on issues…

While the Scottish National Party offers genuine opposition to Tory austerity, what are the British parties in Scotland doing? They are all pursuing the same anti-SNP line. They are all obsessing about the ‘threat’ of a democratic referendum. They are…

West Lothian Council has fallen under the control of Labour after the party received Tory support which allowed them to outvote the SNP. The SNP ended up the largest party after the recent local elections with thirteen councillors, one ahead…

The story will fade of course just as they always do. Headline news in the middle of an election campaign, the episode that is ‘The Foodbank Nurse’ will be nothing more than a Google search result in the not too distant…